Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE

Amount

$1,452,921.00

Award Date

9/10/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

Primary lymphedema is the clinical expression of defects in lymphatic development and function. Three genes have been shown to cause primary lymphedema, VEGFR3, FOXC2 and SOX18. Mutations in these genes account for only a fraction (~1/3) of all cases of p